Arm/Disarm

This action allows arming and disarming of the vehicle. Force arming/disarming is optional.

This action also provides feedback based on the state of the vehicle. The icon will be in the highlight colour if the vehicle is in the state which the button commands.

TIP

Setup a confirmation press for force arming and disarming.

Under the hood

Command

MAV_CMD_COMPONENT_ARM_DISARM as a COMMAND_LONG

Field Name	Type	Value	Description
param 1	float	0.0 or 1.0	0.0 for disarm or 1.0 for arm
param 2	float	0.0 or 21196.0	21196.0 to force
param 3	float	NaN
param 4	float	NaN
param 5	float	NaN
param 6	float	NaN
param 7	float	NaN

Feedback

The arming state feedback is from the SAFETY_ARMED flag in the base_mode field of the HEARTBEAT message.